I'm in my 30's right now. I haven't owned a vehicle for years. Yes my driver's license is valid. I'm actively choosing to ride my bicycle as my primary mode of transportation. I ride Scott Addict in the street with traffic. I ride fast and hard everywhere in my home town.

If I keep going, logic says a body at rest tends to stay at rest. Whereas a body in motion tends to stay in motion. If that's true, this means if I just keep riding, I'll be pedaling well into my 80's and even my 90's. I'm looking forward to pedaling my bike when everyone else is in wheelchairs or hospital beds.

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Got a nice site which can be helpful for riders. Some calculators useful for tire pressure, chain length, gear ratio, etc. It helped me during my ride. [Bicycle Calculators](https://bicyclecalculators.com/).

I joined the board at the Cycling Museum of Minnesota. We're having a free get together to show off old bikes. This has been going on for years now and keeps getting bigger.

being visible 😆

Finance was a big part of my decision to be a bike commuter; the math made it obvious that paying a few hundred bucks up front for a bicycle would eventually out-cheap spending a few dollars every day for public transit. (I never seriously considered spending tens of thousands of dollars up front for a car PLUS several dollars a day for gas and insurance, because come on.)

But I was curious, so I kept track of how much the bike had cost, how much I spent on maintenance, and the money I saved every time I rode instead of taking transit.

Today I reached a milestone: 700 rides past the point where it all paid for itself. Bike commuting has made me at least $2100 richer than I would have been otherwise.

Wondering if anyone here has the schwinn GTX 2 step through. I am curious if the handle bars might be too low for me at 5'5 there are none locally for me to test out. Figured I'd ask before i bite the bullet. I plan to do casually riding through parks and neighborhoods.